Feral cats

[123fish]

You can shoot them all day long in a situation like that Archerysniper. Good job.

[Finlander]

I remember a few years ago when I was looking down a driveway into the parking lot at a wildlife management area I see a bunch of young pheasents following the hen and they dissapeared into the weeds, then a few seconds later here comes a cat follwing the pheasents! Now there is no farm buildings within a half mile where they were. And I was on a scouting mission looking for early goose hunting fields and I didn't have any guns to shoot the cat. I would have otherwise. Too many cats from a farm yard that spread out after getting kicked out from the family group. That's where there is a difference between the Dakota's and Minnesota because of the amount of farm yards yielding cats to turn into feral cats. The farm yards in Minnesota are like 5 to 1 in terms of acres to farm yards. Therefore in the Dakota's less pheasents and other birds are taken by feral cats!

These cats need to be thinned!

[jigginjim]

In Kandiyohi county just last spring a fellow was Brought before a judge,Fined for cruility to animals.For just what is going on here.

I guess times have changed.

Who was the judge? Maybe we could just live trap them and release them outside his house. I grew up in New London.

[i'majigger]

Most people do not realize how many wild cats there are out there, I moved into a new house several years ago and had cats running thru the property quite often. I have grouse and cottontails on the property that I did not want killed so started eliminating the cats and kept count. to this day I have killed 73 yes 73 wild cats on my property, Now I live out in the country 10 miles so they are not city cats and my closest neighbor is about a mile away with no livestock or farming operation so these are (or were!) just basic wild cats BUT NO ANYMORE!!!!

Now don't get me wrong anyone who has cats on there farm or around their house is fine by me,I lived on a farm years ago and we always kept cats around to keep the mice in check. So if you have cats around your place please keep them there to rid your residence of mice and other little critters. I do not hate cats but I know they are one of the most efficent hunters out there and out in the wild they can do a lot of harm. They do have to eat too.

[half-dutch]

With the rapid decrease in working farms due to their increasing size, a whole lot of farmsteads have been abandoned along with whatever cats were on them. A surprising number of those cats have survived even this far north. Most of your wild or feral types show the adaption by tending to have longer than normal hair, too. They also carry disease. The vet told my father that a stray tom cat later found dead, was the vector that brought TGE onto his farm and killed an entire farrowing of baby pigs. In smaller communities they have moved into the city sewers from abandoned nearby farms and are quite a nuisance.

[Scott Stein]

a guy around here rented his 2nd farm place out to his daughter and son in law. One day he went out there and noticed a bunch of stray cats running around so he decided to thin em out. His daughter ended up turning him in and he had to go to court for animal cruelty. What a joke. SHOOT THE DITCH COUGARS!

[DIESELDAN]

I live trap them and drop the live trap in my pond in the back yard did'nt realize how many there were around till I started trapping them. I live in the country and always look for a collar before dropping them in. I don't keep track but must have caught about 30 last year. Plus my weimeiner before she died always was good for about 5 a year, watched her catch 2 the ones that didn't run and would try to stand off with her did'nt make it too long, I miss that tough sob.

[pureinsanity]

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[ItsaCrappieLife]

Thats one good thing about Coyote's - they really put a dent in the stray cat population.

[LightningBG]

I wish I could come across a couple feral cats.

Edit: If anybody wants some assistance at their place, I"m in.

[R Buker]

I see a lot fewer ditch tigers these days than I used to before we had coyotes. I guess they are good for something.

[HunterLee]

that is true the fishers are also another good kitty killer few farms i know of don't have any left and they blame it on the poor coyote.